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First You Dream: Celebrating 75 Years of the Nova Scotia Talent Trust
Organized by MSVU Art Gallery in partnership with Cape Breton University Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. The Nova Scotia Talent Trust was founded in 1944 and has been awarding scholarships to visual artists since 1949. To celebrate the NSTT 75th Anniversary, First You Dream developed out of a call for entries to all scholarship
Find out more »Future Possible: Art of Newfoundland and Labrador From 1949 to the Present
Taking place on the 70th anniversary of Confederation with Canada, this exhibition gathers close to 100 artworks, images and objects from across The Rooms art gallery, archives and museum collections to ask questions about how histories are told and re-told. The exhibition examines the period after Confederation in 1949, placing historical works in conversation with
Find out more »Carl Beam: One Who is Brave-Hearted
Ojibwe artist Carl Beam was a critical figure in recent First Nations art in Canada, and he was the first artist of Indigenous ancestry to have works purchased by the National Gallery of Canada as contemporary art. He shunned traditional style, working in the modern mediums of prints and photo-transfer, inserting the personal and the
Find out more »Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art
Artists: Sandra Brewster, Chantal Gibson, Sylvia D. Hamilton, Bushra Junaid, Charmaine Lurch, Esmaa Mohamoud, Michèle Pearson Clarke, and Gordon Shadrach. This exhibition challenges preconceived notions of Blackness in Canada through the work of eight contemporary artists. The artworks use current and historical objects, images, and ideas to blur the longstanding perception that Black bodies belong on
Find out more »Jaime Angelopolous: Oblique Choreography
June is busting out all over the Art Gallery with a lively and colourful exhibition of work by artist Jaime Angelopolous. Oblique Choreography pairs sculptural and drawings in bold, playful and organic forms. “Known for her spirited explorations of form and colour,” guest curator Ivan Jurakic writes, “Jaime Angelopoulos’ sculptures and drawings share a complementary
Find out more »Carrie Allison: Wâhkôhtowin
wâhkôhtowin is the Cree word for “kinship” or “the way in which we relate to each other.” For artist Carrie Allison, this concept serves as an artistic methodology and guiding principle. Heart River (2018), a beaded map of the Heart River, which runs through the artist’s Cree and Métis family territory, underscores essential relationships between traditional beading,
Find out more »Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds
Mapping Worlds presents a selection of works on paper produced by Shuvinai Ashoona over the past two decades. Though many of her early drawings depict daily life in Kinngait (formerly Cape Dorset), Nunavut, continuing an artistic tradition begun by the artist’s grandmother Pitseolak Ashoona (1908–1983) and first cousin Annie Pootoogook (1969–2016), Shuvinai Ashoona is best known
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